Mark Hollis: A Perfect Silence

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The book begins, predictably, at the beginning, with the parents, the Essex childhood, the year spent studying child psychology at Sussex University where Hollis met Flick, and so on. I’m tempted, but hesitent because I’m too flighty and would probably lose interest (or forget) before I got to the end. Uneasy with his fame and fiercely private, the post-rock pioneer left behind a musical legacy of extraordinary beauty. Two years before he died from cancer, at the age of 64 in February 2019, Mark Hollis and his wife moved from west London to the East Sussex market town of Heathfield, where they bought a house at the end of a secluded track. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

An extremely good read though, and surely as close to the final word on this subject as we’re ever going to get. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Well, the world of music of cinema or TV is complex and full of unrealised projects, but that's particularly frustrating.

After that, a seven year gap before his last work, a self titled solo effort originally intended to be a Talk Talk album titled Mountains of the Moon, and that was that – twenty years of silence was its only follow up.It is diligent, sceptical when it needs to be, well reported, authoritative and written from the heart. He has written and presented regularly for BBC’s Front Row and hosted a podcast about vinyl for several years. For the first time A Perfect Silence explains the realities and explodes the myths surrounding Hollis and Talk Talk's career, and in doing so reveals the working patterns, sense of humour and desire for privacy of the man himself. Afterward, everyone involved dispersed, even Hollis’ trusted producer and collaborator, Tim Friese-Greene.

ICYMI there’s a new instrumental album out by Held By Trees which is new music made by musicians who played on latter day Talk Talk albums and Hollis’ solo album.The final two Talk Talk albums, as well as his solo work, take the listener on a long journey, the ultimate destination of which is a form of post-rock minimalism, with echoes of Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen. Wardle’s biography addresses and clarifies all these sources, but the book’s aim is not so much on who Hollis was. A new generation of musicians led by Guy Garvey of Elbow and Thom Yorke of Radiohead frequently referenced the band and cited Spirit of Eden (1988) as a totemic work.